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• अपनी मातृभूमि के लिए अगर मुझे हजार बार मौत का सामना करना पड़े, तो मुझे दुःख नहीं होगा। हे भगवान, मुझे भारत में सौ जन्म दें। लेकिन मुझे यह भी प्रदान करें कि हर बार मैं मातृभूमि की सेवा में अपनी जान दे दूं। - राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh Lord! Grant me a hundred births in India. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland. -- Ram Prasad Bismil
• उन लोगों से सावधान रहें, जिनके पास इस बारे में विचार हैं कि आपको क्या करना चाहिए। उन लोगों की तलाश करें जिनके पास इस बारे में विचार हैं कि वे क्या कर सकते हैं। Beware of people who have ideas about what you should do. Look for people who have ideas about what they can do.
• जो लोग आपके साथ अपने धार्मिक विचारों को साझा करना चाहते हैं वे कभी नहीं चाहते हैं कि आप उनके साथ अपने धार्मिक विचारों को साझा करें। People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. -- Dave Barry
• एक व्यक्ति एक विचार के लिए मर सकता है, लेकिन वह विचार उसकी मृत्यु के बाद, एक हजार जन्मों में अवतार लेगा। One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. -- Subhash Chandra Bose
• Those who worship don't know and those who know don't worship. -- Bodhidharma, 500 AD
• The executive of the future will be rated by his [her] ability to anticipate his [her] problems rather than to meet them as they come. –- Howard Coonley
• Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. -- Chandra Shekhar Azad
• Leaders who do not listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. -- Andy Stanley
• In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path. -- Swami Vivekanand
• जीवन अपने दम पर जिया जाता है। अन्य कंधों का उपयोग तो अंतिम संस्कार के समय ही किया जाता है। Life is lived on its own. Other's shoulders are used only at the time of the funeral. -- Bhagat Singh
• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. -- Lee Iacocca
• Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spritual power. -- Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel
• The only easy day was yesterday. - US Navy SEALs
• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of others. -- Napoleon Hill
• Be the same person privately, publicly and personally. –- Judah Smith
• When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither. -- Albert Einstein
• The ultimate measure of a [person] is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy –- Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein
• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. -- Patanjali
• Resilience: becoming so numb to ignoring, rejections, daily grind that you keep on batting regardless of whether or not you get a response! –- Anonymous
• जब तक आप सामाजिक स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त नहीं करते हैं, तब तक कानून द्वारा जो भी स्वतंत्रता प्रदान की जाती है वह आपके लिए कोई लाभकारी नहीं है। So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. -- B. R. Ambedkar.
• Do no pray for an easy life, pray for strength to endure a difficult one. -- Bruce Lee
• दूसरों की गलतियों से सीखें, आप उन गलतियों को स्वयं बनाने के लिए लंबे समय तक जीवित नहीं रह सकते। Learn from others' mistakes, you cannot live long enough to make them yourselves. -- Chanakya
• The more people you're responsible for, the more your words and the way you communicate those words and your body language and essentially everything you do is taken into consideration by the team. -- Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. To see things in the seed, that is genius. -- Lao Tzu
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
• हमारे आदर्शों की प्राप्ति में, हमारे साधन अंत के समान शुद्ध होने चाहिए! In attaining our ideals, our means should be as pure as the end! -- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. -- Sarah Dessen
• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. -- Sarojini Naidu
• The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. -- Albert Einstein
• रात के अंधेरे के लिए सूरज को दोष न दें। Do not blame the sun for the darkness of the night.
• Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. -- Addison H. Hallock
• Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
• A good deed is never lost.
• Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. -- Jeff Bezos
• An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
• When only tool you have is hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails.
• Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch
• There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing! -- Aristotle
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it and virtue is doing it.
• Doing nothing is better than busy doing nothing.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. -- Mark Twain
• To exude positive energy does not mean being a Cheer-leader.
• Some people are always right, no matter much they might be!
• जब कोई समाज मौन होता है, तो विचलित व्यवहार सामने आते हैं और वे आदर्श बन जाते हैं। When a society is silent, deviant behaviors emerge and they can become the norm. -- Jeffery Lin, the Lead Game Designer of Social Systems at Riot.
• When 99% of people doubt your idea, you are either gravely wrong or about to make history! -- Scott Belsky: Think – Grow – Prosper
• You can't go around whining about every other thing that seems not-so-right to you in this world. -- Roshna Nazir
• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. -- Robert Brault, American writer
• I do not believing in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right! -- Ratan Tata
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. -- Oscar Wilde
• If leaders want to direct the attention of their employees, they must first learn to focus their own. -- Daniel Goleman
• A failure to focus inward leaves you rudderless, a failure to focus on others renders you clueless, and a failure to focus outward may leave you blindsided. -- Daniel Goleman
• Action arises from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to improve a condition which is conceived to be deficient, to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness. -- Ludwig Von Mises
• कृतज्ञता महान साधना का एक फल है। आप इसे आम लोगों के बीच नहीं पाते हैं। Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson
• We have lost a deep sense of gratefulness about the freedom we enjoy, a lack of gratitude for all the material advantages we have. -- Robert A. Emmons, Univ. of California, Davis
• The word IMPOSSIBLE says I aM Possible.
• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. –- Voltaire
• Smiles are great investment, the more you collect the more you feel better!
• Be careful, the word IMProving may also mean I aM Proving!
• यदि आप अपने सपनों को प्राप्त करने में विफल रहते हैं, तो अपने तरीकों को बदलें न कि अपने सिद्धांतों को! पेड़ अपनी पत्तियों को बदलते हैं अपनी जड़ों को नहीं! If you fail to achieve your dreams, change your ways not your principles! Trees changes their leaves not their roots!
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. –- Edmund Burke
• For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause. -- Gary DeMar
• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it is indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that's being dead. —- Nobel Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel
• जर्मनी में वे पहले कम्युनिस्टों के लिए आए थे, और मैं इसलिए नहीं बोला क्योंकि मैं कम्युनिस्ट नहीं था। फिर वे यहूदियों के लिए आए और मैं नहीं बोला क्योंकि मैं यहूदी नहीं था। फिर वे ट्रेड यूनियनिस्ट के लिए आए, और मैं नहीं बोला क्योंकि मैं ट्रेड यूनियनिस्ट नहीं था। फिर वे कैथोलिकों के लिए आए और मैंने बात नहीं की क्योंकि मैं एक प्रोटेस्टेंट था। फिर वे मेरे लिए आए और उस समय तक कोई भी बोलने के लिए नहीं बचा था। In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionist and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. –- Pastor Martin Niemoller, Nazi Victim
• साहस की परीक्षा तब होती है जब हम अल्पसंख्यक में होते हैं, सहिष्णुता की परीक्षा तब दिखता है जब हम बहुमत में होते हैं। The test of courage comes when we are in the minority, the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. —- Ralph W. Sockman
• Arrogance is weakness disguised as strength. -– Unknown
• If we don't accept ourselves for who we are and where we've come from, who will? -- Silvia Rojas
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. -- Helen Keller
• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw
• Hard work is like stairs and luck is like lift. Luck may get shut at any time but the stairs will always take you to the heights! -- Anonymous
• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words! -- Elbert Hubbard
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -- Martin Luther King Jr. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. -- Martin Luther King Jr
• अपने इतिहास, उत्पत्ति और संस्कृति के ज्ञान के बिना एक व्यक्ति जड़ों के बिना एक पेड़ की तरह है। A people without the knowledge of their history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey.
• लोगों को नष्ट करने का सबसे प्रभावी तरीका उनके इतिहास की उनकी समझ को नकारना और उन्हें तिरस्कृत करना है।The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. -- George Orwell
• We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do. -- Margaret MacMillan
• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. -- George Washington
• उसके दुश्मन हैं बहुत, आदमी अच्छा ही होगा! -- Anonymous

• आप बुद्धिमान व्यक्ति की तरह बात करते हैं लेकिन आपके शब्दों का चयन मूर्खता पूर्ण है! You talk like wise man but words are foolish. -- Krishna to Arjun before war: Bhagawat Gita
• In a battlefield there cannot be a selective treatment. -- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
• If you are alone and miserable, you are in bad company. -- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
• धार्मिक सहिष्णुता एक ऐसी चीज है जिसका हमें सभी अभ्यास करना चाहिए। हालाँकि धर्म और धार्मिक स्वतंत्रता के नाम पर किसी भी चीज़ से ज्यादा उत्पीड़न और अत्याचार हुए हैं। Religious tolerance is something we should all practice. However there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. -- Walter Koenig
• In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. -- Richard M. Nixon
• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal
• Religion is made for humans ... human is not made for religion, I respect all religions ... and don't believe in any religion. -- Anonymous
• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. --Susan B. Anthony
• किसी ने पूछा की सीमाएँ क्यों हैं। मैंने कहा मेरा राष्ट्र मेरा धर्म है और प्रत्येक धर्म की सीमाएँ हैं। Someone asked why there are borders. I said my nation is my religion and every religion has boundaries. --Anonymous
• Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain. -- Ralph Waldo Emersion
• Some falsehood mingles with all truth. --Longfello.
• The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues. --Baron De Grimm
• Rather fail with honour than suceed by deceit.
• The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. --Boileau
• A wise fool is a worse fool than an ignorant fool. --Moliere
• Force rules the world and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force. --Pascal
• Minorities treat majority as mistress, the more she yields, the more we demand
• कुछ महान पैदा होते हैं, कुछ महानता हासिल करते हैं और कुछ पर थोपी हुई महानता होती है। Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. --Shakespeare
• Man usually appreciates his freedom when he is no longer free or when he has obtained it by infinite sacrifice. --Istvn Szechenyi
• True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. --Theophrastus
• Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. --D'urfey
• Be not simply good, be good for something!
• If an idiot were able to tell you the same story everyday for a year, you would end by believing him. --Burke
• Men spend the first half of his life learning tha habits that shorten the other half!
• Bad habits are like comfortable bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of!
• We cannot all be heros. Somebody has to sit on the pavement and clap as they go by!
• सत्यनिष्ठा खुद को सच बताना है। ईमानदारी दूसरे लोगों को सच बताना है। Integrity is telling myself the truth and honesty is telling the truth to other people. --Spencer Johnson
• If you do not defend your honour, people will assume you have none. --Michale Levine
• A great many people want to be devout but no one wants to be humble. --Rochefoucauld
• पाखंड एक ऐसा अपराध है जिसे माफ नहीं किया जा सकता है। एक पाखंडी का पश्चाताप भी पाखंड है। The only vice than cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. --Hazlitt
• He that voluntarily continues ignorance is guilty of the crimes which ignorance produces.
• The only grcious way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you cannot ignore it, top it. If you cannot top it, laugh at it. If you cannot laugh at it, it is probably deserved. --Russell Lynes
• If you do not know what you want, you often end up where you do not want to be. --Bob Greene
• In the most corrupt state there are the most laws. --Tacitus
• Law should be clear, precise, consistent! To interpret it is to corrupt it. --Napoleon
• One of the test of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
• The man is slow in unlearning what is has been long in learning. --Seneca
• Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to other. --William Allen White
• If we do not say what we mean and do not mean what we say, we lie.
• A lie has no legs and cannot stand but it has wings and fy far and wide. --Warburton
• If your mind is not open, keep your mouth shut too. --Sue Grafton
• It is better to keep your mouth shut and have people think that you are fool than to open up and remmove all doubt.
• अपने पड़ोसियों से प्यार करो लेकिन बाड़ को मत हटाओ। Love your neighbours but do not pull down the fence.
• A bad neighbour is as great an evil as a good neighbour is an advantage. --Hesiod
• एक असत्य के लिए एक शपथ जोड़ें और आप इसकी मिथ्याता बढ़ाते हैं। एक सच्चाई के लिए शपथ जोड़ें और आप इसकी शक्ति को लूटते हैं। Add an oath to an untruth and you increase its falseness. Add an oath to a truth and you rob it of its power. --Allen John
• Where the offence is, let the great axe fall. --Shakespeare
• जो अपने देश से प्यार नहीं करता वह किसी और चीज से प्यार नहीं कर सकता। He who loves not his country can love nothing. --Byron
• शांति लाने के लिए संघर्ष मत करो। Let's not fight to bring peace.
• Politeness is excellent, but it does not pay the bill.
• Ninety percent of the politics is deciding whom to blame. --Meg Greenfield
• हम उस आदमी को नहीं सुधारते हैं जिसे फाँसी दी जाती है, हम उसके द्वारा दूसरों को सही करते हैं! We do not correct the man we hang, we correct others by him. --Montaigne

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